Hello, I have followed your suggestions regarding -current.
amd64 -current (GENERIC.MP) does no longer hangs when trying to detach re0, but now, re0 is sometimes detected correctly and sometimes not: I give the messages in both cases: Failure: re0 an pci2 dev0 function 0 "Realtek 8168" rev 0x02: RTL8168C/8111C (0x3c00), apic2 int 16 (irq 11), address 00:19:99:54:31:7f re0: PHY write failed re0: PHY write failed re0: no PHY found! re0: reset never completed! re0 detached Success: re0 an pci2 dev0 function 0 "Realtek 8168" rev 0x02: RTL8168C/8111C (0x3c00), apic2 int 16 (irq 11), address 00:19:99:54:31:7f rgephy0 at re0 phy 7: RTL8169S/8110S PHY, rev. 2 the controller is: 10/100/1000 MBit/s Realtek RTL8111C, so i think the kernel sometimes initializes the controller with a driver and sometimes with a 'close enough driver', and in the later case it works. i will also try tonight a freshly backed i386 release, which initially failed to build due to a link error(but the kernel and userland completed flawlessly), however a second attempt with a new update from cvs completed successfully. i'll let you now the results. thank you for your support, bogdan p.s. please let me know if somebody needs the port 8283 opened anymore.
